Re: [Mantisbt-dev] Config file questions, again

[Julian F. <ju...@be...>]

Victor Boctor wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: man...@li...
>>[mailto:man...@li...]On Behalf Of
>>Christopher Shaffer
>>Sent: Tuesday, 21 January 2003 1:15 AM
>>To: man...@li...
>>Subject: [Mantisbt-dev] Config file questions, again
>>
>>
>>I'm working on an installer, and I've got more config file
>>questions.  Working from the CVS build
>>as of Jan 17th, I see this file mentioned in core.php:
>>
>>custom_config_inc.php
>>
>>Is that the name of the config file that I should genereate with
>>the installer?
> 
> User configuration can be placed in either of these files:
> custom_config_inc.php
> config_inc.php
> 
> Users should not use both.

Erm, yes, but config_inc.php is only for backwards compatability right?

Like I said, I find it very confusing that custom_config_inc.php and 
config_defaults_inc.php don't share similar naming patters.  I've been 
developing for 8 months and I still hesitate and stop and think when 
trying to remember which file to open.  I'd like to look at these names 
before we release.

Either we should go back to using config_inc.php or maybe the defaults 
should become default_config_inc.php.  Actually, as I write this, I 
think maybe I'm partial to going back to config_inc.php.  I know you 
changed it to be consistent with custom_strings, custom_whatever_else_we 
_have but I'm not sure that configuration needs to fall into the same 
boat - it's not really a "custom" feature, it's just normal 
configuration.  And many projects use the filename config_inc.php so 
people will find it in their directories easier.

Thoughts anyone?

Julian


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